SPIDERS

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SPIDERS
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How Spiders Live

• Autonomy a spider will self-amputate a leg to
  get a way from a predator like a bird.
• A way of survival for a spider.
• Behavioral Ploys
• Display warning colors
• Dropping quickly away on a silk line and playing
  dead on the ground.

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Dangerous Spiders

• Funnel Web Spider
• Found in Australia LINK
• Medium to large spider
• Body color can vary from black to brown
• Red Back Spiders LINK
• Australias best Known Spider
• Black to brown with scarlet red stripe down the
  middle of the abdomen.

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What they eat

• Web-based Hunters
• Webs that hold the prey until the spider can come
  to eat the prey.
• Usually are insects
• Moths, flies, etc.
• Prey Handling and Feeding
• Biting
• Injecting paralyzing venom
• Silk swathing and wrapping

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Growth of a spider

• Moulting
• Shedding of a spiders skin
• Takes hours
• Done at night or under some sort of shelter
• Egg sac to adult
• Spider ages

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Review Questions

• What is autonomy?
• What are some behavioral ploys a spider uses to
  survive?
• What two dangerous spiders did we talk about?
• What is one way a spider traps their food?
• What is shedding of a spiders skin called?
• Find out more about spiders at this link!!